The clubs will do peer education; the clubs will be a forum for affected students to
share their experiences. (HIV/AIDS Technical Advisor, Ministry of Education, 4
October 2004)
The clubs extend what we do in the ...

This paper analyses gender equality in the composition of Uganda Martyrs University (UMU)
staff—as of the close of 2008. The analysis focuses on the University’s policy and its implications for gender
equality; the ...

Masculinity and femininity debates of armed conflict in Africa have always regarded
men as fighters and women as passive victims of war. The exclusion of women from the armed
forces in most traditional societies originated ...

This paper examines the link between gender, social capital and rural development in Uganda.
Noting that gender relations involve struggles over control of strategic resources and relationships, it highlights
the complex ...

Drawing on a comparative analysis from central and northern regions of Uganda, we identified the factors that are associated with educational inequality and quality of life in secondary schools in both regions. Our sample ...

Research within science textbooks has dominantly focused on examining explicit representations of women and men using quantitative methodology. The assumption that gendered arrangements are necessarily explicit and therefore ...

My interest in gender equity was largely shaped by my experience as a young English teacher in a co-educational secondary school in Uganda. I completed both my primary and secondary education in single-sex schools which ...

Informed by a feminist post-structural framework, this study departs
from the overriding emphasis on explicit constructions of women
in textbooks. It focuses on culturally implicit knowledge and/or
gendered discourses ...

The central role played by textbooks in children’s education in developing
countries has been highlighted previously in this journal. This paper
reports on how an English-language textbook used commonly in Ugandan
secondary ...

This study departs from the overriding focus on textbooks, which disregards how readers take them up. Informed by feminist post-structural theory, I analyse the construction of gender in children's fiction texts used in a ...